Topic: temperatures

Week starts out overcast but progresses to partly sunny and a chance of temperatures in the 70s by week's end. Tonight: Patchy fog after 11pm. Otherwise, cloudy, with a low around 51. Northwest wind between 3 and 10 mph. Saturday: Patchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 67. Light wind becoming west northwest between 11 and 14 mph....

We're still struggling through over temperatures well into the 90s, and the last thing I feel like doing is cooking; even starting up the grill is fatiguing. So I've been thinking about summer appetizers, those light, fresh, simple nibbles that highlight one or two ingredients and delight the eye and tongue with something unusual, and...

Beating the record set in 1973. We've seen it over 100° in Brookings once before. Temperatures are measured at the airport, of course. It was more like 90° down on the beach with a 20 MPH wind, and the water was ice cold. A lot of reading was done....